John Pescatore

John Pescatore
VP Distinguished Analyst
11 years at Gartner
32 years IT industry

John Pescatore is a vice president and research fellow in Gartner Research. Mr. Pescatore has 32 years of experience in computer, network and information security. Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Pescatore was senior consultant for Entrust Technologies and Trusted Information Systems… Read Full Bio

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3 responses so far ↓

• 1 Saqib Ali   November 24, 2009 at 2:31 pm

  very cool! but not true. cloud computing is real – not hype.

• 2 jesse   November 24, 2009 at 5:13 pm

  So was Compuserve…

  Cloud computing is nothing more that a renaming of “Centralized Computer Services” aka “Computing as a Service”

• 3 John Pescatore   November 24, 2009 at 5:36 pm

  I have to agree more with jesse – cloud computing is certainly real, but waaaay over-hyped. 99% of the time when people are talking about “cloud” they are just talking about Software as a Service. Which before that was called Application Service Providers.

  We even have people calling mainframe-based credit card processing services “cloud” because they have an HTTP interface.

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